Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

In the assembly the following bills were
passed: To incorporate the city of Maus-
ton; requiring the insurance commissioner
to state in each license issued to lie and
accident insurance companies the amount
OF the guarantee capital OF the company
receiving the license, also IN his annual re-
port; and prohibiting him from issuing any
license unlees the law is conformed to and
the guarantee capital is properly secured.
Senate bills were concurred in: 10 enlarge
the powers OF trustees OF cemetery assocla-
tiOns; permitting suits against houses OF
ill-fame to be brought on information and
belief simply; to provide for the formation
and government, by not less than twenty
five persons, of mutual, reciprocal and CO.
operative associations wishing to engage
in the manufacture and distribution OF
products or the transaction OF general
business; making it larceny for any person
to unlawfully sever from the soil ofanother
any cranberry vines growing thereon; to
authorize and emp wer the Wausau Boom
company to maintain it's dams and works
in the Wisconsin river; to authorize the
town of Marinette to Join with the munich
palities OF Michigan to construct and
maintain a bridge over the Menomine
river, and to levy taxes and borrow money
in aid thereof; to authorize the state board
Of supervision OF charitable, reformatory
and pena, institutions to build or license
the building OF railway spur tracks through
the grounds OF the state institutions under
it's charge, connecting those institutions
with the general lines OF railway. The bill
to prohibit the leasing of convict labor
and to provide for the education OF the
convicts was indefinitely postponed.
MADISON, March 17.-Bills were passed
Relating to lands sold for taxes; adding
live stock insurance companies among the
companies included in chapter 80 of the re-
vised statutes; to authorize the city of
Milwaukee to employ veterinary surgeon
at an annual salary of $500; prohibiting
any person from practicing veterinary
science, or act as an expert witness, unless
he be duly registered. and no person shall
be entitled to register unless he is gradu-
ate OF college of medicine or shall hold
certificate from legally incorporated vet
Urinary society, or shall have practiced for
five years continually prior to the passage
of this act; requiring the commissioners OF
public lands to dispose of certain indemni-
ty lands received by the state in lieu OF
swamps and overhowed lands located by
military bounty warrants from September
%, 1852, to March 3, 1857, the minimum
price per acre being 81. the proceeds to go
to the proper counties &lG towns. Bills to
amend the city charters OF Menominee and
Amigo were passed under suspension Of
the rules. The vote was reconsidered by
the senate Joint resolution proposing an
| amendment to the constitution, making
the oldest member Of Ike suprsme court in
point of service the ex-officio chief Justice
The resolution was then ordered to a third
reading.
MADISON, March 1S.-Gov. Rusk returned
to the Senate the bill authorizing the i'm
provement of ST. Louis Bay, in Douglas
County, by a tax to be raised by the
county, with his objections thereto. The
Governor deems the improvement being
made in the bay by the general govern
ment sufficient and opposes the custom Of
| sectional legislation that is becoming too
extravagant to be wise. The Senate re-
fused to pass the bill over the veto. Bills
were passed, among others, to provide for
an inspector of public buildings in Milwau
kee; to amend the charter Of the city Of
Appleton: to incorporate the city OF Maus-
ton; to amend the charter of the city of
Viroqua. The Senate adjourned until
1890 A. NJ. tomorrow.